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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/163",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-miscellaneous-amendments-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend a number of different regulations relating to social security in consequence of certain provisions of Schedule 1 to the National Insurance Act 2015 (c. 5) (“the 2015 Act”) coming into operation. Paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the 2015 Act substitutes section 11 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c.7), which relates to liability for Class 2 National Insurance contributions. From 6th April 2015 self-employed earners with profits in a tax year of £5,965 (the Small Profits Threshold) or over will pay Class 2 contributions via the Self-Assessment system.\nRegulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and interpretation.\nRegulations 2 to 8 amend the following regulations:\nthe Income Support (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987;\nthe Child Support (Maintenance Assessments and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992;\nthe Jobseeker’s Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\nthe Child Support (Maintenance Calculations and Special Cases) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001;\nthe Housing Benefit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006;\nthe Housing Benefit (Persons who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006;\nthe Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008,\nin particular so as to align the language and legislative references with those contained in the 2015 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/163/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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